Reforms will aim to create a more sustainable funding system as population grows older, and Lowe to address economy’s ‘narrow path’
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the Australian news. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ve got several stories for you before my colleague Natasha May takes over.
Our top story overnight is an exclusive report on a prediction by defence chief Gen Angus Campbell that the military will emerge stronger as it acts on the “very confronting” findings of the Brereton inquiry into alleged war crimes. With the defence establishment rocked by the implications of Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case, it emerged that Campbell said recently that said the inquiry would, in time, have a “very positive effect on the institution and its people”.
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